remanded

[ri-man-did]

adjective

1. sent back or consigned again, as for revision.

   A remanded proposal that fails to achieve a 60% majority of votes when reconsidered shall be removed from further consideration.

2. Law.

   1. relating to or being a case sent back to a lower court from which it was appealed.

      We trust that the facts of the parties' relationship will become clearer during the remanded hearing.

   2. (of a prisoner or accused person) sent back into custody, as to await further proceedings.

      A remanded person awaiting trial at the city’s central prison has complained of overcrowding and poor sanitation.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of remand.

Other Word Forms

• unremanded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of remanded¹

remand ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

There was no bail application and he was remanded in custody to appear again in person at Derry courthouse on 18 December.

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Kastrati has been remanded in custody for 18 months since the crash.

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He has been remanded in custody to appear before Norwich Magistrates' Court on Monday.

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He was remanded in custody while extradition proceedings begin and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court by video link on Thursday.

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He said since the start of last year 55 people had been detained on suspicion of assisting, preparing, or committing acts of sabotage and that 23 of them had been remanded in custody.

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